Bathroom Question!! (bringing kids in)

[TheLittles]

Okay, as most Mom's know....if you only have a daughter the bathroom duty USUALLY falls only on you. Well, for as long as we will be out every day in the parks I am wondering, do any of you Dads bring the kids in the bathroom? I mean my daughter is 3. I'm wondering what would happen if a man was a single Dad and had to bring her to the bathroom himself anyway. Just wondering if its weird/unacceptable. I'm tired of getting up 2 times during every meal bringing my daughter to the bathroom because no one else can haha

 

[kymom99]

Family bathrooms

 

[StefR]

My husband absolutely takes my 3 year old to the bathroom plenty of times. He takes her to the boys room and we have never had an issue.

 

[butterfly71076]

My brother would take his daughter to the restroom without issue. Now, that she's a bit older (6), she refuses to go the men's room. But, at 3, yep, he took her in.

 

[SaintsManiac]

DH brought DD5 to the family bathroom in Epcot (I think it was near Japan). There are family restrooms all over the parks.

 

[lugnut33]

Just have your hubby take the kid in and to heck with all those hung up on gender roles.

 

[maxiesmom]

DH brought DD5 to the family bathroom in Epcot (I think it was near Japan). There are family restrooms all over the parks.

Disney doesn't have Family Restrooms. They have Companion Assisted Restrooms. The difference is important as the toilets in them are higher off of the ground then typical, and not lower as most Family Restrooms.

 

[SaintsManiac]

Disney doesn't have Family Restrooms. They have Companion Assisted Restrooms. The difference is important as the toilets in them are higher off of the ground then typical, and not lower as most Family Restrooms.

Makes no difference to me. Maybe the proper wording would matter to someone else. I could not care less. The toilet was no higher than the ones in my house.

 

[maxiesmom]

Makes no difference to me. Maybe the proper wording would matter to someone else. I could not care less. The toilet was no higher than the ones in my house.

It may make a difference to others. Many family bathrooms have multiple toilets in them, with at least one being a lower child sized toilet. That is not what the Disney Companion bathrooms are like.

 

[powellrj]

They are companion restrooms not family restrooms. They are wheelchair accessible which is why they are higher. Anyone can use them, but please remember that it's the only restroom many people that require assistance can use, so don't use it as a dressing room or use it if you can use a regular restroom.

 

[Boski]

IBTL

 

[SaintsManiac]

IBTL

yep apparently a very touchy subject.

My sincerest apologies for calling it a family bathroom. I'll never make that mistake again!

 

[Accident]

I've seen young daughters in the mens room before with dad and it's really been no big deal. We get it, sometimes it has to happen. I am a single dad so there was years there I wish there was more family bathrooms in malls and such.

Disney does have a large amount of more private family or need assistance bathrooms to get privacy if your child is not all the young but still needs someone with them age. In the parks, it's right there.. in a restaurant, ask where it is, some aren't near the others.

 

[maxiesmom]

yep apparently a very touchy subject.

My sincerest apologies for calling it a family bathroom. I'll never make that mistake again!

I was just trying to clarify, in case it would be a big deal for someone's child.

 

[gtpoohbear]

I think 3 is fine. I'm pretty sure DH took DD in the men's bathroom with him when she was that age. And of course I still take 5yo DS into the bathrooms with me. I do avoid taking him into a more locker-room type place where people will be changing out in the open, even though at a lot of those facilities the age cut-off for opposite gender is 6 (so maybe that's a good unspoken rule for bathrooms?) But I don't think anyone would mind a young girl going in to use the potty with her dad.

 

[GhibliFan]

My Wife and I share bathroom duties. Never had anyone ever say anything about it.

 

[SunnieRN]

Suddenly, out of the blue, my grandmunchkin, 7 at the time, refused to go to the bathroom with his mom or I. At WDW of course. So he would go in, I would be stalking the door until he exited lol.

The funny thing is, he is a hummer/singer in the bathroom. He was singing frozen songs with every bathroom trip, not quietly mind you. A couple men walked out one time and said, ' that little girl has a very good voice!' Luckily my grandmunchkin didn't hear them.

 

[katmatry]

When my daughter was little my husband would take her into the mens room. He had her close her eyes as he walked her past the urinals to a stall.

 

[Maistre Gracey]

Oh what will the conversation look like when the transgender bathroom controversy arrives at WDW? You know it's only a matter of time.

MG

 

[anniemae]

I would try to use the companion restrooms in the parks when you can if she needs to go in with DH. At restaurants its a little trickier because I don't think there are companion bathrooms. I usually just take dd in the ladies room and dh takes ds in the mens room now that he is starting to get to be too old to go into the ladies room. It's harder to take a girl in a mens room because there are not a lot of stalls so they may have to wait for one to open up. Plus, I don't really think I would want my dd to see men at the urinals, she was the type of toddler that would have stared and asked TONS of loud inappropriate questions.

Yes, it is annoying to have your hot meal placed in front of you then your toddler announces he/she has to go to the bathroom, but it is what it is. I try to take them in right after we order so they can go then.